Excelsior Correspondent
—Excelsior/ Younis Khaliq
SRINAGAR, Mar 19 : Maintaining that the coming Lok Sabha elections have to be viewed above the routine power calculations People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti has expressed confidence that the people’s would break the past practice of sending politicians on lookout for employment to the highest forum of the country.
Addressing largely attended workers’ convention at Pulwama, wherein workers from Pulwama and Rajpora constituencies participated, and at Awantipora where workers from Pampore and Tral constituencies participated, she said “we need to have strong and sincere voices in the Parliament who can take-up the Kashmir issue and the issues of Jammu & Kashmir with rest of the country inside the Parliament and outside of it’’. “Unfortunately till now those, who have taken votes in the name of state’s dignity, autonomy and other emotional issues always collaborated with the tormenters of the people of the State”, Mehbooba added.
She said even the 65years after the independence the people of J&K are facing uncertainty and instability in every sphere of the life. This fact should always have been articulated in the Parliament effectively, not just for striking alliances but for finding actual remedy to our problems. Four members of Lalu Yadav’s party could stop an important legislation in the Parliament while parties from Bengal and Tamil Nadu effectively intervened in the foreign affairs of the country but half a dozen MPs in UPA from J&K even did not open their mouth when blood is being spilt in Kashmir every day. No MP from J&K even asked a question about any issue related to this State as has been brought out in the Lok Sabha record recently.
Mehbooba said the only objective of elections for NC has been to find jobs for their leaders in Delhi and in the State.
Party senior leaders, Mohammad Khalil Bandh, MLA and district president; Syed Bashir Ahmad, MLA; Zahoor Ahmad Mir, MLA; Mushtaq Ahmad Shah, MLA; Zaffar Iqbal Manhas, state secretary; Mohammad Shafi Banday; Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, youth wing in charge and youth leaders Showkat Gayoor and Dr Shanti Singh were also present on the occasion.
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